Okkher You guys joke about not much good Aussie cars. And thats fair enough given that you never see any!

But there is heaps of info and reading and stories, about the greatness, and failures of Aussie cars about the place.
I may try to whack a big thing together if i can be bothered. But there is so much to cover

Okkher You guys joke about not much good Aussie cars. And thats fair enough given that you never see any!

But there is heaps of info and reading and stories, about the greatness, and failures of Aussie cars about the place.
I may try to whack a big thing together if i can be bothered. But there is so much to cover

G'day just joined this forum. I don't know much about american cars, but I can help with the aussie ones.

Have a look at http://www.summernats.com.au/photos.htm
Summernats is a big car-fest that every enthusiast attempts to attend each year, which attracts just about every type of car fan (ricer, low-rider, horsepower hero, muscle, street, burnouts, show, spl monster etc etc). I went this year, and saw some strange and awesome cars.
Like the little blue excel (wtf everyone yelled) seeing an excel with scoops, until it started doing burnouts, and everyone found out it was converted to RWD, V8 twin turbo, except it crashed into the wall later. Other highlights are party bus, miss summernats, Jack Daniels girls, rock-conquering 4WD with shocks through the bonnet, burnouts, dune-racer, and Gary Myers awesome black burnout mustang, and his Silver Bullet, slammed, twin supercharged mustang that sticks over the roof of the car. More at www.garymyers.com.au, including movies.

Theres a lot of aftermarket companies for aussie cars such as Nizpro and CAPA, which have both developed massive power kits. http://www.nizpro.com.au/media_main.html has some videos of their Falcon XR6-Turbo engine (4L straight 6) which makes 1163HP or 750 KW. And an F355 twin turbo ferrari. http://www.capa.com.au/ to see all their products which are well tested, as they had a 1022HP LS1 Crewman (ute) which is road-driven and returns 13.5L/100km over 1000kms.

Sorry for long post, but thats a few of the highlights of aussie cars, gotta sleep for uni tommorow, its nearly midnight here.

I don't think there's enough of us around here to talk about Aussie cars all the time. I'd prefer to just mention them every now and then as a comparison to the cars being talked about on the forum.

Sure, if you've got something specific to ask/say about Aussie cars, then just post it in one of the other sections (whatever seems most appropriate). If it's interesting, people will find it and continue the thread.

hmmm well i can talk about the old Aussie cars, The Holdens, Valiants, Minis and the like, to a lesser extent the Falcons, umm dunno, anything oldish, the more tuff cars that Australia has produced. They are such wonderful, and diverse cars, that if anyone cares about i probably could tell them,
someone else can care about the 'new' cars, eg after 80's but old is the best for Australia

HAHAHA Sorry we have the wood over those Lions we do
Havent lost in a while won 2 at the Gabba They must be pretty good to give them such a good touching up over the last 2 seasons in Brisbane. Well im from Tassie i have no loyalties to WA just i go for the Weagles

Hmm
well Unfortunately im NOT old enough to be around to see the engines 1st hand.
Im only 18, but my first car was an EJ Wagon with the original grey 138. I didnt know a lot back then (it was unregoed and needed a little work) But there was no rust, and it was roadworthy and registerable and driveable. A super car got it for 850 bucks, You will NEVER find a car that good for that cheap ever again in know now
hmm but i sold it to a family friend so it aint that bad, he said when he fixes it up i can even drive it on the raod. I only got to hang it out in the paddock HAHAHA good fun

So the engines were alright then?
I read that in every aspect including fuel efficency and obviously power, acc, whatever, the 350 would out do the 202, even for town driving and just other stuff>? I mean it sounds to me like a ( maybe it depends what colour it was> for which i doint know what means? ) big heap of rubbish>?

The 202 was a red motor six. The 350 was a cousin of the 327, which were both a POS V8 really, which is why Holden started making their own 308. The LJ GTR-XU1 202 had no problem out handling and out pacing the Monaros fitted with the 350. It was only marginally slower than the GTHO XY.